Virtually all current theories of choice under risk or uncertainty are cognitive and
consequentialist. They assume that people assess the desirability and likelihood of possible …

It has been shown that in certain situations losses exert a stronger effect on behavior than
respective gains, and this has been commonly explained by the argument that losses are …

Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases.
However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from …

It is ultimately an empirical question whether risk preferences are stable over time. The
evidence comes from diverse strands of literature, covering the stability of risk preferences in …

Nudges influence behavior by changing the environment in which decisions are made,
without restricting the menu of options and without altering financial incentives. This paper …

A key question in the literature on motivated reasoning and self-deception is how motivated
beliefs are sustained in the presence of feedback. In this paper, we explore dynamic …

We propose a technique for assessing robustness to demand effects of findings from
experiments and surveys. The core idea is that by deliberately inducing demand in a …

COVID-19 and climate change share several striking similarities in terms of causes and
consequences. For instance, COVID-19 and climate change affect deprived and vulnerable …

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire
undergraduate university student population, a representative sample of the US population …

Behavioral finance tries to make sense of financial data using models that are based on
psychologically accurate assumptions about people's beliefs, preferences, and cognitive …